The process_getopt project is a wrapper around getopt for bash script developers. It saves you time, reduces the chance for errors and increases the chance that doco is actually written. It is the bash equivalent of RedHat's popt and GNU's argp for C.

Install:

As far as end-users are concerned there is only one file to take care of and that is process-getopt. This can be placed anywhere on the PATH perhaps /usr/local/bin.

Developers who intend to create scripts using process-getopt might also like to install the man page somewhere on MANPATH, perhaps /usr/local/share/man/man1.